Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report added fresh detail about Moscow's global intelligence vacuum cleaner. For instance, espionage allowed the Soviets to copy the "look-down, shoot-down" radar capability of the F-18, saving an estimated five years and $55 million in research. Moscow also pirated the design for a computer used in cruise missiles. But the Pentagon study itself pointed out that about 90% of the intellectual booty comes from open sources rather than spying. Weinberger proposed no new statutes or regulations to reduce the haul...
...complicates his handling of Streep's character, Susan Brock. Because she is so complex and passes through so many psychological metamorphoses, the audience needs some assistance in interpreting her within a single context. Schepisi's direction provides us with no help whatsoever, developing each individual sequence in a creative vacuum wholly severed from the rest of the film...
...hotel employee whose identification tag said he was Kresimir Skoko got on an elevator, dragging an enormous vacuum cleaner. At the next floor, a moist young woman fresh out of Lake Michigan got on with two youthful sports who struggled to settle their bicycles around Skoko's machine. The athletes had the look of the superfit, the whites of their eyes blue white, calves plumped out like loving cups, dazzling teeth set in gums that probably will never know the heartbreak of gingivitis. Skoko had the look of a man grown weary with this age, and the knit...
...elevator door opened at the sixth floor and the two with bikes wrestled to get them over the vacuum cleaner and into the corridor...
Grouch, you say? Old crank? On the contrary, sympathy is due the vacuum- cleaner man. The world, and especially this country, has become a hard place for those not yet committed to the overhaul of the flesh, heart and lungs--and none of these were in a rougher spot last week than Skoko...